The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland: Preserved at Welbeck Abbey, Volume 2H.M. Stationery Office, 1893 - Great Britain |
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acquainted affairs Aleppo APPENDIX AND INDEX April August Bishop Brampton Bryan brother CAPTAIN WILLIAM PENN Castle Charles church Colonel command Copy Court December deputy lieutenants desire DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Dutch EARL OF CLARE EARL OF NEWCASTLE England fair favour fleet France French friends gentlemen give GODOLPHIN Grace hath hear hill honour hope horse James January July June King King's Lady land late letter dated Lieutenant London Lord Halifax Lord Privy Seal Lordship Majesty March market town miles NATHANIEL HARLEY Newcastle House night Nottinghamshire November October Oxford Parliament persons preceding letter Prince Privy Seal qu'il Queen received river ROBERT HARLEY Royal sayle Scotland Seal of arms sent September shew ships Signed Signet SIR EDWARD HARLEY Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William Penn things thither thought told Welbeck Whitehall
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Page iv - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.